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B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams
Ant writes "The Telegraph reports that people over 55 who were brought up watching a monochrome TV set are more likely to dream in black and white, even years later. New research suggests that the type of television you watched as a child has a profound effect on the color of your dreams. While almost all under-25s dream in color, many over-55s, all of whom were brought up with B&W sets, often still dream in monochrome. The study, out ot Dundee University, used a small number of subjects under 25 or over 55 and the results suggest that '... there could be a critical period in our childhood when watching films has a big impact on the way dreams are formed ... [B]efore the advent of black and white television all the evidence suggests we were dreaming in color.'"
So this means I am going to dream in 1080i?
Thanks to DRM, your dreams will all be downscaled from that.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
about how the youtube generation will dream...
Monstar L
I frequently have dreams where I'm reading some modern work, but the book is a huge leather bound volume with clasps and hinges, and the text is in archaic black letter, or hand scribed with illuminated portions. I guess, by the study, this is because of my formative years in the 1540's.
Who is John Cabal?
The truth, of course, is that before the 1950s, the world itself was in Black and White.
8-bit graphics! You were spoiled!
My first computers were 1-bit graphics (B&W), and my favorite computer game was NetHack (www.nethack.org) (although I think it was just called Hack back then). My dreams look something like this:
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That's me in the kitchen with my father.
that as you grow older, the color leaches out of your dreams along with hope. Oh, wait, that's just me.